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A Google Chrome developer posted a detailed Google+ post about how the team is working embedding a full DNS resolver in Chrome in an effort to improve performance.

The Google NativeClient team posted some of their presentations at the Game Developers Conference on the web, noting that NaCl "runs C/C++ code in a web page, without plugins." Google is presenting NaCl as part of an overall solution to enable traditional game developers to reach new users on the web. "We like to say that Chrome is the modern gaming browser."

The V8 Javascript engine team released an updated V8 benchmark, which now includes 2D fluid dynamics simulations. The team notes that Chromium 19 performs 25% better on the benchmark than version 17.

Chrome, in development builds, now has an experimental Managed Mode API, which will "allows one person to manage the Chrome experience for another person by pre-configuring and then locking a managed User profile."

Microsoft

Microsoft released more information about "enhanced protected mode" for IE10. Among other changes, instances of Internet Explorer running in the Metro interface will require specific permissions to access different aspects of the operating system, eg the Documents folder, using an extension of the "brokering" system first released with IE8. Networking restrictions will also reduce threats to intranets from malicious internet applications. Currently, Adobe Flash is incompatible with the technology.